Essays on leadership by Boutros Boutros-Ghali(
Book
)
10
editions published
in
1998
in
English
and held by
1,153
libraries
worldwide
The Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict invited five world leaders, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, George Bush, Jimmy Carter, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Desmond Tutu, to consider leadership and preventing deadly conflict. Each offers a different perspective, yet all conclude that an individual leader's choices are crucial to creating the conditions that enhance or undermine peace. This volume highlights the capacities of international leaders. These leaders can help mobilize great financial or military resources, build international coalitions, and create a constituency for prevention. The Commission believes that prevention should be on the agenda of every head of state and government meeting and all foreign and defense ministerial gatherings. The international community should champion and reward good governance, especially in countries struggling towards greater democracy. International leaders can call attention to the problem of intergroup violence and tap into latent public inclination toward prevention. They have the scope to explain the need for prevention. They can help build the political will necessary to mount an effective response to complex emergencies and to help people prevent violence before it erupts. Addressing this point in his essay, former United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali highlights the need for vision, communication, and cooperation

The United Nations and the advancement of women, 1945-1996 by United Nations(
Book
)
21
editions published
between
1995
and
1996
in
English and Italian
and held by
648
libraries
worldwide
Throughout its first half century, the United Nations has served as a catalyst for the global advancement of women. Working to promote the principles of gender equality and non-discrimination enshrined in the Organization's Charter, the United Nations has been instrumental in promoting recognition of women's fundamental human rights, in codifying those rights in legally binding international agreements, and in fostering greater understanding of the central role played by women in peace-building and in economic and social development. The United Nations and the Advancement of Women, 1945-1995 includes more than 100 United Nations documents relating to women's rights, and chronicles the evolution of a campaign in which the initial focus on political and family life has expanded and now encompasses urgent issues such as poverty, violence against women and equal access to education, employment and health care. Complementing the documents are an extensive introduction by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali and detailed chronologies. The documents include: 1) the landmark 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women; 2) International conventions and declarations on the political rights of women and the nationality of married women; 3) Actions plans, declarations and resolutions adopted at the cycle of world conferences on women beginning in Mexico City in 1975 and including the 1985 Nairobi Forward-looking Strategiesand the 1995 Beijing Conference; 4) Resolutions of the General Assembly and of the Economic and Social Council; 5) United Nations surveys and statistics on the status of women worldwide